Table 4 Logistic regression results for question, “The visiting hours are too restricted” (n = 1791)
From: Associations between primary care practice type and patient-reported access
Variable | Univariate analyses | Multivariate final models | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Without linguistic area | Including linguistic area | |||||
Odds Ratio (95% CI) | p-value | Odds Ratio (95% CI) | p-value | Odds Ratio (95% CI) | p-value | |
Practice comprehensiveness of services score | ||||||
Increased score | 1.07 (1.00–1.14) | 0.04 | 1.07 (1.00–1.14) | 0.05 | 1.00 (0.93–1.07) | 0.89 |
Patient sex (female) | ||||||
Male | 0.78 (0.55–1.16) | 0.24 | ||||
Patient age | ||||||
Increased age (years) | 1.01 (1.00–1.02) | 0.16 | 1.17 (0.98–1.41) | 0.09 | 1.18(0.99–1.42) | 0.07 |
Patient born in Switzerland | ||||||
Patient born outside of Switzerland | 0.93 (0.61–1.43) | 0.74 | ||||
Patient employed or retired | ||||||
Unemployed or problem working | 0.95 (0.48–1.89) | 0.89 | ||||
Patient has not completed secondary education | ||||||
Secondary | 1.72 (0.96–3.09) | 0.07 | 1.72 (0.95–3.09) | 0.07 | 1.71 (0.95–3.07) | 0.07 |
Post-secondary or more | 1.87 (1.00–3.46) | 0.05 | 1.98 (1.06–3.68) | 0.03 | 2.11 (1.13–3.92) | 0.02 |
Patient suffers from a chronic disease | ||||||
No | 1.04 (0.72–1.51) | 0.82 | ||||
Speaks the official language fluently | ||||||
Sufficiently well | 0.99 (0.55–1.19) | 0.97 | ||||
Moderately well | 1.78 (0.91–3.44) | 0.09 | ||||
Poorly | 0.67 (0.09–5.17) | 0.70 | ||||
Not at all | 2.55 (0.52–12.58) | 0.25 | ||||
Income lower than country average | ||||||
Average | 1.63 (0.80–3.33) | 0.18 | ||||
Above average | 2.29 (1.03–5.08) | 0.04 | ||||
General health status is very good | ||||||
Good | 1.11 (0.64–1.95) | 0.70 | ||||
Fair | 1.58 (0.87–2.87) | 0.13 | ||||
Poor | 1.58 (0.70–3.57) | 0.27 | ||||
Reason for visit was acute illness | ||||||
Other reason | 0.89 (0.60–1.26) | 0.46 | ||||
Visit was with patient’s own doctor | ||||||
Not with patient own doctor | 0.95 (0.47–1.90) | 0.88 | ||||
Linguistic area -German speaking | ||||||
French speaking | 0.46 (0.29–0.73) | < 0.001 | 0.43 (0.25–0.74) | < 0.01 | ||
Italian speaking | 0.23 (0.09–0.59) | 0.02 | 0.23 (0.09–0.60) | < 0.01 | ||
Urban area | ||||||
Rural area | 1.01 (0.68–1.50) | 0.97 | ||||